Personal Glossary
Chapter 1-
Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
Discourse: Ways of using language and other forms
of communication
Physical-industrial mindset: “Assumes that the contemporary world is
essentially the way it has been throughout the modern-industrial period, only
now it has been technologized in a new and very sophisticated way.” Page 10
Cyberspatial- postindustrial
mindset: “Assumes that the contemporary world is different in important
ways from how it was even 30 years ago, and that this difference is growing due
to change that is related to the development of new internetworked technologies
and new ways of doing things.” Page 10
Chapter 5-
James Paul Gee
Projective Stance: “A double-sided stance towards the world
(virtual or real) in terms of which we humans see the world simultaneously as a
project imposed on us and as a site onto which we can actively project our
desires and values.” Page 22
Instantiates: To represent by concrete instance
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Centrifugal Force: Imposed upon
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Projective Beings: Refers to the double-sided nature of
gamers and their characters. Page 99
Vector: A quantity that has size and direction
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Iterative: Expressing repetition of a verbal action
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Albeit: Conceding the fact that: even though: although
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Chapter 6-
Rebecca W. Black
Fan Fiction: “Spaces where school age fans are using
new ICTs to engage, not only with pop culture and media, but also with a broad
array of literate activities that are aligned with many school-based literacy
practices.” Page 116
New Capitalisms: “Centers on the production of material
goods, to what is valued within social and workspaces rooted in a mindset
“forged in cyberspace.” Page 116
Affinity Spaces: “People interacting and relating to each
other through common interest or passion.” Page 117
Flame: In regards to Fan Fiction, to viciously insult them or
their work in a manner that has little or no redeeming value. Page 123
Crossovers: “Blending stories from different sources
together.” Page 137
Synergism (Synergistically): “Interaction of discrete agencies (as
industrial firms), agents (as drugs), or conditions such that the total effect
is greater than the sum of the individual effects”
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Metonymy (Metonymous): “A figure of speech consisting of the
use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or
with which it is associated (as “crown” in “lands belonging to
the crown”)”
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Autoethnographic: “An approach to research and writing
that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order
to understand cultural experience.”
Ellis, C., Adams, T., & Bochner, A.
(2010). Autoethnography: An Overview [Abstract]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research,
12(1). Retrieved from http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1589/3095
Chapter 9-
Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear
Meme: “Contagious patterns of “cultural information” that get
passed from mind to mind and directly generate and shape the mindsets and
significant forms of behavior and actions of a social group” Page 199
Memetics: Having to do with memes
Fecundity: “The rate at which an idea or pattern is
copied and spread.” Page 202
Geek Kitsch: “The syntactic and semantic hiccups
within the English subtitles.” Page 210
Anomalous Juxtaposition: In regards to memes, “hooks” for
maximizing the susceptibility of the idea being passed from mind to mind.” Page
215
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